Glass-blowing tool.



PATENTED DEC. 15, 1903.

A. DEWERPB.

GLASS BLOWING TOOL.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN. za, 1903.

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AUGUSTE DEWERPE, OF CONVERSE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JULES MAYEUR, SR., OF CONVERSE, INDIANA.

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'SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 747,049, dated December 15, 1903.

Application led January 28, 1903. Serial No. 140,865. (No model To a/ZZ wiz/m t may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUSTE DEWERPE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Converse, in the county of Grant and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glass-Blowing Tools, of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it apro pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

This invention seeks to provide a blowingtool for making hollow Ware which can be easily manipulated and in which the escape of the blowing fluid will be eifected automatically. Such a tool is illustrated in the accompanying drawings; and the invention consists in certain novel features of the same,

zo as will behereinafter rst fully described and then particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure lis a vertical section of a tool embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the line m x of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a modiied form of the tool. y

Referring particularly to the drawings, it will be seen that the tool' comprises two tubes or pipes A B, constituting the inlet and outlet pipes for the compressed air or other gaseous fluid used in blowing. In Fig. l the tubes or pipes are arranged concentrically and are braced near their lower ends by a plurality of radial arms C. The outlet-tube is provided with escape-openings D at its upper end which are normally closed by outwardlyopening valves E, held normally to their seats by springs F or their equivalents. The usual bait Gis attached to the lower end 4o of the outer tube. In the preferred construction shown in Fig. 1 the inner tube is used as thev inlet and the outer tube as the outlet.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a slightly-modified form of the device, in which the two tubes are arranged side by side instead of concentrically and are joined near their lower ends just above the bait by an elbow I-I.

The operation of the tool will be readily understood. The tool is lowered in the bath 5o of molten glass, and as soon as the lower edge of the bait comes in contact with the glass a small quantity of the blowing iiuid is admitted through the inlet-pipe, so as to exert a slight pressure on the glass and-prevent it rising within the bait. The bait is then pushed down into the bath a short distance (about four inches) and the pressure within the tool increased, so that a small bulb is started within the bath. The tool is then raised and increased pressure admitted there- 6o to, so as to expand the glass adhering to the bait to form a jar or bottle neck, a cylindrical roller, or other article, as may be desired. The air or blowing Huid is of course raised in temperature by its contact with the hot glass and tends to rise, while the incoming fluid, being cooler, seeks the lowest point of the chamber formed by the glass, where it is heated by the glass and expands, so that a pressure will constantly be exerted at the 7o working point of the cylinder. The heated air risingfrom .the glass will pass out into the escape pipe or tube and will then escape through the ports in the end of the same when the pressure becomes excessive.

While my tool is intended more particularly for use in blowing cylinders for window-glass, it is adapted for the manufacture of all hollow glassware. The blowing fluid is admitted to the bait close to the molten 8o glass, so as to quickly reach the point where it is to work. The escaping air leaves the bait through the same end that the incoming air enters and serves thereby to partly heat the fresh supply, so as to avoid a too sudden chilling of the glass by the contact of the air therewith. The friction between the incoming and outgoing currents of air serves to retard the escaping current, so as to prevent its premature discharge, and this effect is in- 9o creased in the preferred form of the device bythe friction of the outgoing air upon the inlet-pipe. Furthermore, it will be noted that a cap is tted over the end of the escape-pipe, so that the direct escape of the used air will be eectually and positively checked.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A tool for blowing hollow glassware havrco ing a bait adapted to gather the glass, an inlet leading to the upper end of the bait, and

an independent outlet leading from the upper end of the bait.

2. A tool for blowing hollow glassware comprising a baitadapted to gather the molten 5 glass, an outlet-tube for the blowing fluid leading from the upper end of the bait, and an inlet-tube delivering the blowing iiuid to the upper end of the bait near the lower end of the outlet-tube. 1o 3. A tool for blowing hollow glassware oomprising an inlet-tube, an outlet-tube surrounding ztnd supported by the inlettube, and a bait on the lower end of the outlet-tube.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subsorib- 15 ing witnesses.

' y AUGUSTE DEWERPE. Witnesses:

JAMES JONES, RosCOE KIMPLE. 

